Make New York Post a Preferred Source An official was seemingly caught on the broadcast shouting at Cardinals tight end Trey McBride during their loss to the Giants, and the official wasn’t wishing him luck.
Line judge Jeff Seeman appeared to curse at McBride after the Cardinals player was arguing his case on a call.
Line judge Jeff Seeman appeared to curse at Trey McBride after the Cardinals player was arguing his case on a call. CBS McBride seemed frustrated and appeared to notice the camera behind him and pointed to it in a way to suggest that what the official had said was caught on the broadcast.
The NFL told ESPN on Sunday night that it was reviewing the situation, and NFL Players Association executive director JC Tretter condemned the official’s actions in a statement posted on social media.
“This kind of behavior from an official towards a player is unacceptable,” Tretter said. “Players are consistently held accountable when the roles are reversed. We expect the NFL to hold officials to the same standard.”
The interaction has raised plenty of questions about what kind of punishment the NFL could dish out if they find that Seeman did curse at McBride.
It also comes on the same day that two other incidents involving refs drew the disfavor of football fans for how the officials handled them.
In the game between the Vikings and Dolphins, NFL referee Adrian Hill had a very dramatic reaction after Minnesota linebacker Eric Wilson was shoved into him and knocked him over.
Hill got up and yelled at Wilson despite the fact that it appeared the Vikings player was trying to help him up.
A referee appears to curse out an Arizona Cardinals player during a game against the New York Giants. CBS During the Patriots’ win over the Bills, New England head coach Mike Vrabel was given an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for telling an official, “that’s a terrible f–ing call.”
“I’ve said that about 87 times since I’ve been a head coach,” Vrabel told reporters after the game, according to Boston.com. “It was nothing derogatory. You’d have to ask him, I think he was a little sensitive. Once I get the word from upstairs that it wasn’t what we felt like was a good call, which I’m going to trust [Patriots VP of football operations and strategy John Streicher] with my life. I probably shouldn’t have swore, but I can tell you in my history of being on the sidelines as a head coach, I’ve said that.”
